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• Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Calling, Levels

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• I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.

  John Glenn

  Powerful, Quality, Astronaut

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• Anyone can memorize facts and figures.  The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it.  Let your curiosity lead you.

  Will Ferrell

  Real, Way, Facts

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• I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity.

  Red Skelton

  Vanity, Glasses, Age

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• I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

  Andie MacDowell

  Thinking, Wonderful

  "Andie MacDowell: Taking Risks, Staying Curious, Agreeing To Disagree". HuffingtonPost Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 23, 2011.

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• John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which has stayed with me through my life. Geography is a living, breathing subject, constantly adapting itself to change. It is dynamic and relevant. For me geography is a great adventure with a purpose.

  Michael Palin

  Teacher, School, Adventure

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• Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

  Javier Bardem

  Block, Kids, Speak English

  "Javier Bardem Comes Across" by Rene Rodriguez, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2000.

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• For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let myself take a long, hard look at myself, something I would not otherwise do--out of instinct, on principle, out of self-preservation--look at myself with objective curiosity to see whether my vision has not destroyed me already. I found it comforting to note that I was still breathing.

  Werner Herzog

  Self, Breathing, Long

  Werner Herzog (2009). “Conquest of the useless: reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo”, Ecco Pr

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• I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.

  Ted Allen

  Thinking, Ideas, Other Cultures

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

  Spike Jonze

  Documentaries, Discovering, Following

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• I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I think that everyone has that curiosity of the great unknown.

  Hilary Duff

  Angel, Thinking, Afterlife

  "Exclusive: Hilary Duff Talks about Elixir". Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

  David McCullough

  Want, Cabbage, Knows

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• I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!

  Clara Bow

  Hollywood, Freak, Bigs

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• They yell at me to be dignified. But what are the dignified people like? The people who are held up as examples of me? They are snobs. Frightful snobs  I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!

  Clara Bow

  People, Hollywood, Example

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• Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and democratic society learn to separate good science from bunk. This is not just a matter of intellectual curiosity, as it affects where large portions of our tax money go, and in some cases even whether people’s lives are lost as a result of nonsense.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  People, Intellectual, Important

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• Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.

  Nicolas Bouvier

  Believe, Sight, People

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• Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.

  Michael J. Fox

  Cat, May, Ass

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• André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about life, and a precise sense of form.

  Brassai

  Two, People, Quality

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• You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.

  Colin Powell

  People, Leader, Excellence

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• Suppose we took a thousand negatives...
  combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city - that would be my favorite picture.

  Berenice Abbott

  Past, Cities, Would Be

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• Four be the things I am wiser to know:
  Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
  Four be the things I'd been better without:
  Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
  Three be the things I shall never attain:
  Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
  Three be the things I shall have till I die:
  Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hope, Laughter, Eye

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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• The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Struggle, Philosophical, Home

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1998). “Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art”, p.98, Oxford University Press

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• The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.

  Ronald Reagan

  California, Intellectual, States

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• People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's too limiting, and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Running, Disappointment, Ideas

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• Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.

  Scott Carpenter

  Book, Conquer, Behinds

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